The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess

"Master Rose, are these deep sea creatures the answer?"

At the seaside basking in the sun for a moment, Hilia couldn’t help but ask Rose.

Rose smiled faintly, didn’t answer, but said: "Look again."

Hilia was taken aback, studied more closely, and suddenly sensed a fluctuation in the array behind her.

Turning around, she found that the array of Letes City had been activated.

"Has Mr. Pharos encountered a formidable enemy?"

Hilia muttered to herself, suddenly stunned.

She saw the array surrounding the entire Letes City flickering wildly after a strong light, as if lacking energy.

"What happened? Why would the city’s protective array behave like this?"

Hilia couldn’t help but use Mage’s Hand to touch the nearest spot.

It was the lighthouse.

The towering lighthouse was part of the protective array, now also flickering with a faint light.

This faint light and the array modified by Rose weren’t the same array.

Though both were within the lighthouse, they were not the same system, completely unrelated.

The city’s protective array is usually hidden and won’t be affected as a whole by damage or loss of any one part.

In such a large city, the array can’t cover all aspects, and the flickering due to damage in some places is normal.

But as it is now, with flickering everywhere, Hilia immediately knew it was abnormal.

Her intuition told her the array had issues.

Mage’s Hand turned into threads, connecting into the rune patterns of the lighthouse.

Hilia exclaimed in surprise: "The lighthouse is actually one of the key nodes of the array, but from outside, it’s hard to go deeper."

She thought for a moment, assigned the purification task to the magic puppet, and entered the lighthouse herself.

She looked at the lighthouse floor, searched for a moment, and found a hidden door to open.

"This should be the room controlling the array."

Hilia jumped in, observing the flickering runes around her, slowly furrowing her brow.

"This place..."

She suddenly remembered the Tier Four cultist she killed earlier.

"She must have been here."

Hilia walked in and soon discovered anomalies.

"Someone has come in and installed something within the array."

Mage’s Hand smoothly penetrated the array node, and Hilia quickly found the problem.

The advanced magic crystal, supplying the entire array node with magic power, had been tampered with, its energy no longer pure.

Hilia took it out, used a carving knife to scrape off the runes on the magic crystal’s surface, and put it back.

The array finally returned to normal.

Hilia couldn’t help but criticize: "Doesn’t Mr. Pharos care about the maintenance and security of the array? Not even knowing someone has entered the maintenance room."

Rose glanced at it, shook his head: "Such an old array, how can there still be arrays in this era that can be modified so easily."

Hilia thought for a moment and said: "The History of Arrays mentions that a hundred years ago, there was a popular type of open array. After making a model, modules could be added freely, making the array multi-functional. The protective array of Letes City must be like this."

Rose nodded, "Maybe."

"I’ll check other parts of the array to see if they are the same."

Hilia invaded the array, moments later, her brow furrowed tightly.

"Whoa, the infiltration here is even more absurd than in Kost City, what is going on."

Hilia couldn’t stand such an outdated array, directly initiating an invasion.

Quickly, she completely grasped the entire array.

"Fortunately, the protective array is a whole, unlike the sacrificial array of the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association; otherwise, controlling such a massive array would be impossible."

Nevertheless, Hilia could only focus on the core blocks, as looking elsewhere risked her getting lost.

Through the core area’s nodes, Hilia sensed the chaotic magic power in the city center.

"This array seems to have surveillance nodes, let me see... found it."

Soon, she saw the scene in the city center.

Phil running amok, silently enduring Phil’s attacks was Mr. Pharos, with a mysterious mage occasionally taking potshots from the side.

The situation in the city center seemed unfavorable.

"Phil..."

Hilia’s mood sank, various thoughts rapidly flashed through her mind.

At this moment, she suddenly felt a surge of spiritual power entering the array through her Mage’s Hand.

She looked at the shadow of Rose beside her.

"Master Rose..."

"Let me handle it." Rose smiled.

"Alright." Hilia immediately stopped, allowing Rose to take over.

Everywhere in the array instantly started flashing.

Hilia didn’t know what Rose did, but the modified node cores, and the runes on the advanced magic crystals supplying energy, were gradually fading.

Meanwhile, she suddenly noticed some small arrays within the massive array that seemed not to belong.

The familiar runes immediately made Hilia recognize them.

"Sacrificial arrays of the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association? So many?"

Hilia roughly took a look; throughout the city, there were at least 100 arrays!

With so many arrays running simultaneously, creating 100 temporary Tier Four cultists... Hilia dared not imagine.

Rose chuckled: "No use, 100 pseudo-tier-four mages won’t cause waves, because the array strength of Letes City is sufficient to withstand, and besides soul energy, demonic qi pollution is required as well. This is why the deep sea demons appeared."

"Additionally, if they wanted to release 100 tier-four mages to cause havoc in the city, it would directly activate the protective array and annihilate them. So, they chose to have 100 tier-four mages supply energy to the mage in the center."

"Indeed, it’s Phil; her uniqueness was favored by the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association, making her the star tonight."

Watching the frenzied Phil, Hilia asked in puzzlement: "What exactly is the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association trying to do? Is forcing Phil to rise to tier-five meant to hold Mr. Pharos in check?"

Rose shook his head: "They want to break the pattern, call upon the gods, and have people from the Golden Apple Stone Forest come over to assist."

"Call upon the gods?" Hilia blinked, "Didn’t Master Rose say that the so-called ’Evil God’ Rost was already killed by you?"

Rose glanced at Ethel, being reformed through labor, and smiled faintly: "Indeed, which is why their notion to summon gods can’t be realized."

Phil’s divine covenant level was the same as Hilia’s, both at 100%, and the infusion of pollution and soul energy throughout the city forced her to climb to tier-five. Aside from creating, one of the purposes was to summon gods.

They didn’t know their deity had already been captured by Rose and still attempted to gain the divine oracle.

"Moreover, they want a Tier Six mage from the Golden Apple Stone Forest to come over."

Hilia asked, puzzled: "But isn’t the Golden Apple Stone Forest also under attack by deep sea demons? It seems the Deep Sea Mutual Aid Association’s stronghold there has been affected, fighting deep sea demons alongside the Holy Court."

The latest news indicates a fierce battle at the Golden Apple Stone Forest, with the emergence of Tier Six demons, which indiscriminately destroy everything they see, regardless of whether it’s the Holy Court or cultists.

Rose smiled in silence, only glancing at Ethel in the Sealed Land.

That’s right, the turmoil at the Golden Apple Stone Forest was orchestrated by Rose through Ethel using the shard of divine format in the Sea of Tranquility.

After Rose tore open a rift, Ethel could temporarily use the divine format shard to control the deep sea and incite a group of deep sea demons to cause trouble near the shore, a mere casual act.